...This is the prime object ; the grand end for which we are sent into this world. At our birth, " aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world" — lying in moral ruins — depraved in our dispositions...

...people," and in that sense " not beloved." the apostle legitimately applies It to the heathen, as "aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise" (So l Peter. 2. 10). 36. And (another quotation from Hosca, i io> it shall come to pass, that in the...

...I declare to you, that it is Satan's arch-deception thus to have persuaded you that you are aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise. All your sins are nothing, when compared with this sin of not believing the grace of God manifested...

...parts of the pit ; sonic of them had sunk very far in tho miry clay. They were once far off, aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise. Many of them dwelt in lands of heathen darkness, amid the habitations of horrid cruelty. You look up...

...is one of joy and gladness, and this especially to us, who in common with all Gentiles were " aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise." "The manifestation of Christ to the Gentiles " was the first practical exhibition of the fact that...

...Gospel, or to dispense the sacraments. And those who adhere to their ministry are regarded as aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise ; and if not absolutely excluded from all hope of being saved, are thought to have no better security...

...relation to God, — they proudly contrasted their condition with that of the Gentiles, 'who were aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise ;' for ' they were Israelites, to whom pertained the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and...

...incorporated into the " commonwealth " of those who had preceded us. We dogs of the Gentiles, had been "aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise," but we were to be shut out no longer. We are incorporated finally and fully into the one " commonwealth...

...incorporated into the " commonwealth " of those who had preceded us. We dogs of the Gentiles, had been "aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise," but we were to be shut out no longer. We are incorporated finally and fully into the one " commonwealth...

...adoption or the covenants. They were a heathen colony planted in the very midst of Palestine, aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise. A few women and slaves — possibly a few vinedressers and husbandmen — as we find in the case of...